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The Business Travel Coalition launched a petition to urge the Obama administration to force airlines to provide ancillary fee information to all sales channels.
The petition was posted on the “We the People” platform on the White House website, which allows any American to create and post a petition on the site and collect signatures....More

News from Travel Technology Update: The Business Travel Coalition (BTC) launched a petition to urge the Obama administration to force airlines to provide ancillary fee information to all sales channels....More

Sabre’s settlement agreement with American Airlines contains “an agreed upon period during which American will only negotiate with Sabre regarding a new passenger processing system,” according to documents filed in the carrier’s bankruptcy court....More

News from Travel Technology Update: Sabre’s settlement agreement with American Airlines (AA) contains “an agreed upon period during which AA will only negotiate with Sabre regarding a new passenger processing system,” according to documents filed in the carrier’s bankruptcy court....More

The US majors will not give up on their campaign against the Gulf carriers, which present the biggest-ever threat to the future of US airlines, the CEO of United Airlines said in a speech in New York Thursday....More

Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA) president Tim Canoll said the wider public has to be educated about the threat laser pointers pose to aircraft and help law enforcement catch people shining lasers into cockpits....More

US airlines, particularly regional carriers, have expressed hope that strict pilot training requirements implemented by FAA in 2013 will be eased in FAA reauthorization legislation expected to be taken up by Congress later this year, but there will likely be a strong push back against any efforts to change the rules....More